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frankfortstation.com sports<br />

the frankfort station | April 12, 2018 | 49<br />

BASEBALL<br />

Lockport Sectional loaded with area teams<br />

JEFF VORVA<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

Providence Catholic’s<br />

unprecedented baseball<br />

title reign ended last year<br />

when Sandburg knocked the<br />

Celtics off at the Class 4A<br />

Homewood-Flossmoor Sectional.<br />

The Celtics had a postseason<br />

23-game winning streak<br />

snapped. They had won three<br />

consecutive state titles, which<br />

had never been done before<br />

in the history of the Illinois<br />

High School Association.<br />

If the Celtics want to win<br />

BASKETBALL<br />

CJB sixth graders win three tournaments<br />

STAFF REPORT<br />

The Cardinal Joseph<br />

Bernardin sixth grade boys<br />

basketball team won three<br />

tournaments this season en<br />

route to a 32-7 campaign.<br />

The Cardinals capped the<br />

season off by winning the<br />

South Suburban League<br />

championship. They also<br />

won the Ridge Park and<br />

Queen of Martyrs tournaments<br />

earlier in the season.<br />

another state title in 2018,<br />

they have a rough road,<br />

which includes many area<br />

teams standing in the way.<br />

The IHSA announced its assignments<br />

and the Celtics<br />

plus six other 22nd Century<br />

Media teams will duke it<br />

out in the 21-team Lockport<br />

Sectional. Lockport, Lincoln-Way<br />

East,Lincoln-Way<br />

Central, Lincoln-Way West,<br />

Sandburg and Andrew are<br />

also in the mix. Providence<br />

is the only area team that<br />

will lost a regional.<br />

Other teams in the sectional<br />

are Eisenhower,<br />

Marist, Bloom, Marian,<br />

Crete-Monee, Homewood-<br />

Flossmoor, Thornton, Joliet<br />

Central, Joliet West,<br />

Thornton Fractional South,<br />

Shepard, Stagg, Romeoville<br />

and Thornwood.<br />

In the April 2 edition of<br />

the Prep Baseball Report<br />

state rankings, six teams<br />

from the Lockport Sectional<br />

are in the top 25. Lincoln-<br />

Way East was ranked sixth,<br />

Andrew 13th, Lockport<br />

14th, Sandburg 17th, Providence<br />

22nd and Marist 25th.<br />

That means at least two of<br />

those teams will not win one<br />

of the four regional titles.<br />

In Class 3A, Tinley Park<br />

is in the 10-team sub-sectional<br />

of the Ottawa Sectional.<br />

The Titans are joined<br />

by Thornton Fractional<br />

North, Chicago Agricultural<br />

Science, Morgan Park,<br />

Hillcrest, Evergreen Park,<br />

Illiana Christian, Lemont,<br />

Bremen and Oak Forest.<br />

Seeds will be announced<br />

on May 8. The regionals<br />

begin May 21 and the state<br />

finals are June 8-9.--<br />

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s sixth-grade basketball team finished 32-7 and won three tournaments this season. Photo<br />

submitted<br />

Members of the team are<br />

Orland Park’s Alec Hickey,<br />

Josh Montalvo and Jack<br />

Nolan,Tinley Park’s Matt<br />

Cotter, Homer Glen’s Logan<br />

Stafford, Frankfort’s<br />

Aiden Cech and Corey Hansen,<br />

Chicago Heights’ Issac<br />

Krabbe and Christo Krabbe,<br />

Monee’s Chris McGrath<br />

and Crete’s Zach Rhein<br />

The coaches are Joe<br />

Hickey, Mario Montalvo<br />

and Russ Cech.<br />

SOFTBALL<br />

Lincoln-Way East player Alex Storako rounds the bases<br />

during a game against Lincoln-Way Central on March 29.<br />

22nd century media file photo<br />

Local squads aiming<br />

for postseason success<br />

JEFF VORVA<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

Lincoln-Way East’s softball<br />

team dominated regional<br />

and sectional action en<br />

route to a second-place finish<br />

in Illinois High School<br />

Association Class 4A state<br />

tournament in 2017.<br />

East outscored Thornton<br />

Fractional South, Minooka,<br />

Joliet West and Lockport<br />

by a combined score of 26-<br />

3.<br />

Will the Griffins be able to<br />

breeze in the early part of the<br />

postseason again?<br />

The other teams in the 19-<br />

team Joliet West Sectional<br />

will have something to say<br />

about that.<br />

The Griffins will join<br />

22nd Century Media-area<br />

teams Lockport, Lincoln-<br />

Way Central, Lincoln-Way<br />

West and Andrew in that<br />

sectional.<br />

Others in the tournament<br />

are Bolingbrook, Bloom,<br />

Crete-Monee, Homewood-<br />

Flossmoor, Thornton, Joliet<br />

Central, Joliet West,<br />

Thornton Fractional South,<br />

Minooka, Plainfield Central,<br />

Plainfield East, Plainfield<br />

South, Romeoville and<br />

Thornwood.<br />

Sandburg is heading to a<br />

19-team sectional that does<br />

not have a host yet. Other<br />

teams in that sectional are<br />

Morton, Eisenhower, Reavis,<br />

Curie, Kelly, Kennedy,<br />

Marist, Mother McAuley,<br />

Hinsdale South, Proviso<br />

West, Hinsdale Central, Lyons,<br />

Oak Lawn, Richards,<br />

Shepard, Stagg, Riverside-<br />

Brookfield and Argo.<br />

In Class 3A, Providence<br />

Catholic and Tinley Park are<br />

in a sub-sectional at the 20-<br />

team Ottawa Sectional.<br />

Other teams in the subsectional<br />

are Coal City, Hillcrest,<br />

Joliet Catholic Academy,<br />

LaSalle-Peru, Morris,<br />

Ottawa, Plano and Sandwich.<br />

Seeds will be announced<br />

on May 8. The regionals<br />

begin May 21 and the state<br />

finals are June 8-9.

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